Just what I expected

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I wanted to see this movie because I like Geoffrey Rush and Tony Shalhoub. I'd never seen a movie directed by Stanley Tucci, either, so that interested me. I took myself to see this, and expected a semi-art house flick. This was... OK, in my opinion. Here's why:The Good: The acting is good, which means the directing was good. Well acted and directed in my opinion.The Bad: There's a bit more than the good, unfortunately. The scenes get a little repetitive after a while, there's a dark color tone to the film that takes a little while to get used to, and I don't feel like you really have a reason to care about the characters. You get left in the dark, just kind of wondering what's taking so long for this man to finish the portrait. He's all over the place. Sometimes studying his drawing, sometimes carousing his mistress, sometimes cursing up a storm. It's an odd situation, watching this film. I didn't dislike it, as some of the other patrons in my theater did, but I don't see a reason to revisit it. So... I'll give it 5/10.

Brilliant artist deserving far better a movie than this one... Rush's "over-acting" : very annoying. Accents totally off...especially when he speaks french which sounds just like an Englishman and not an Italian speaking French absolutely HORRENDOUS! They could have found him two native speakers(FR/IT) and very easily coached him for those few lines... Also the fact that the director had him constantly cursing in English - why the hell not in Italian?! Porca miseria! Truly a poor and irritating film.

The search for perfection is an endless workflow. It is a routine in which there is always time for a walk with a friend, an affair with a muse or a fight with a wife.The peculiarity of this picture is that Tucci does not dramatize the reality of life. He shows everything as it happens in it. A good well-done shot story about the true love of artists for their craft.

Do you really need a model? Some modern art forms and the artists who created them were just so weird. Talents, inspiration, Muse, writer block, painter block, sculptor block....the ways or the twisted ways to look at an object, a dead unmovable thing or a lively human being....Well, you just moved. No, I didn't. Yes, you did....Oh, F@ck! I can't go on, let's do it tomorrow. Okay? Tomorrow would be better. Where should I hide the money? Under the bed? On the beam? You are taller, you do it....No, I can still see it, take it down....Adulteries is the privileged entitlement of an artist, already famous or still struggle to survive. Being abnormal is something great artists usual got, but not autism, yeah?On and on, the questionable obsession of being a model to be painted by a well known artist is just too absurd. But Geoffrey Rush is definitely one of the greatest actors ever be on the screen, a rare treasure that's for sure. "Shine 1996" and "The Best Offer 2013" are the two most memorable films to me. But this film is not what I can swallow easily, what I saw in this film is a troubled mind and soul, very unstable, most of the time just looked like a walking dead, even a mixture of pyscohpath and sociopath, a person with split characters. Do I really want know more about this guy. NO.